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cathedral timesAugust 16, 2015

“Be filled with the Spirit, as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts.”

From this week’s lectionaryEphesians 5:18-19

CHURCH IN THE WORLDDon’t be fooled by the gray classroom, the razor wire lining the tall fences outside, or the khaki uniforms stamped “Department of Corrections.” This is holy ground.

As the congregation of twenty or so incarcerated women trickle in, we go to work transforming the space: moving folding tables to the wall, arranging chairs in a circle, and decking out our altar with a white tablecloth, a cross, and LED pillar candles. A woman I’ll call C., the de facto altar guild and acolyte, reverently sets out the chalice, paten, host, and cranberry-grape juice. W. and P., our music leaders, unpack guitars and start strumming.

Welcome to the Episcopal service at Arrendale State Prison.

By virtue of being an outside volunteer and ordained priest, I’m the designated leader. But the real ministers here are the congregation. It is they who listen to and comfort one another, offer us all life-giving words, sing with joy, and lament with faith. It is they who are teaching me about being church and discipleship.

Through our life together, they are teaching me that church is much more than a building. It is a body: the body of Christ, and the body of the beloved community that follows Christ. It is a community in which we learn to trust God and one another, discover the power of God’s love, and share our gifts while receiving the gifts of others.

All of this is true of our life together at the Cathedral, too. Yet there is something about worshipping with my sisters in prison that brings these lessons into sharp relief. There, there is nowhere to hide your grief or your hope. There, where “personal dealings” of any kind are strictly forbidden, all we can offer each other is ourselves, and that seems to be more than enough. I am not there to fix these sisters of mine or to bring Christ to them. God knows, Christ is already with them, and they do not need fixing! Rather, I am there, by the grace of God, to be in Christian community with them, and they with me. We love and celebrate one another, as we are.

This has influenced the way I think of mission and outreach, as well. Outreach, I believe, is not our gift to God or to others. It is God’s gift to us. It is a means of grace through which God transforms us and our community. When we reach out across social boundaries, we become even more aware of our human interconnectedness, and we build relationships that will deepen our faith and, eventually, change the world.

Indeed, perhaps one of the most just, caring, and prophetic things we can do is simply to be Church in this broken world: to witness to God’s wildly open kingdom through our visible life together, in communion especially with those who are most vulnerable or whom we perceive as other.

The Rev. Cathy Zappa Canon for Mission and Spirituality

This Sunday, August 16, join the Cathedral parish at the annual Homecoming Ministry Fair, at 10:10 a.m. in Child Hall. Members of many of the guilds, groups, and classes from around the Cathedral will be present to discuss their ministry with you. Come meet new friends and reconnect with old ones!

CLERGY AND SENIOR STAFF

2015 CHAPTER

WORSHIP SCHEDULE

The Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler Dean

Dale Adelmann, Ph.D. Canon for Music

The Rev. George M. Maxwell, Jr. Vicar

The Rev. C. Wallace Marsh IV Canon for Worship and Parish Life

Mary Hunter Rouse Canon for Education

The Rev. Carolynne G. Williams Canon for Pastoral Care and Elder Ministry

The Rev. Catherine Zappa Canon for Spirituality and Mission

The Rev. John William Harkins III, Ph.D. Priest Associate

The Rev. Todd D. Smelser Canon Associate for Pastoral Care

The Rev. Theophus “Thee” Smith, Ph.D. Priest Associate

Rob Adams (Junior Warden), Meredith Bateman, Mary Bondurant, Josh Borden, Cindra Brown, Matt Caine, Mary Caroline Cravens (Secretary), Joan Gilbert, Lindsey Hardegree, Wade Hooper, Eric Mininberg, Doug O’Bryan (Treasurer), Randy Rizor, Jennifer Rosenblath (Senior Warden), Ruth Russ, Robert Spiotta, Susan Troutman, George Watson

Sunday, August 16, 2015 / Pentecost 12: Proper 15BLiturgy of the Word Lesson: 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14Psalm 111Epistle: Ephesians 5:15-20Gospel: John 6:51-58

7:45 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Mikell Chapel Celebrant and Preacher: Canon Carolynne Williams8:45 a.m. Holy Eucharist and Baptism, Cathedral Celebrant: Canon Wallace Marsh Preacher: Dean Sam Candler9 a.m. Holy Eucharist and Baptism, Mikell Chapel Celebrant and Preacher: Canon Carolynne Williams11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist and Baptism, Cathedral Celebrant: Canon Wallace Marsh Preacher: Dean Sam Candler1:30 p.m. La Santa Eucaristía, Mikell Chapel Celebrant: Canon Wallace Marsh Preacher: Deacon Juan Sandoval

CHILDRENThe Nurturing Center opens at 8:30 a.m. each Sunday in the summer for children age four and younger.

For those who are ill or recoveringPriscilla BealeVirginia BickslerCatherine CarsonLouisa ChapmanWinnie ClarkSally CoulterLawrence CowartTerry DornbushBettie DriverSarah duBignonMary ElrodMary Ann FrazierD. Louis Gruver, Jr.Connie HoarRuthie HunterWill KleinKaren LeagueDick MillerStuart PeeblesJonna RankineWayne ReidKristi WeldonRoberta WilliamsonDick Wilson

Patti WoodruffHollis YoungnerSusan ColeJerry DiltsSpencer Windham Smith, Sr.Roy UnkeferJulia AlstonNancy BarakShadie BarberRodger BeattyJohn BlanchettAmelia BornemeierDominique BrownMeredith, Adam, and Leo BugenskeDenise CarlsonJosie CarlyleAndrew ClarkJackson CulbrethPaul Dopp, Sr.Jane FirmaniCarleton FullerKelly GissendanerStan HainesPatricia HentzRobert Hoder

Judith KlaubaKelly KolakLisa KrysiakMargaret Winders KuhnBonnie Shields MacCormickLorraine McKnightDan and Jan McPhersonDeborah MerrellRobert Ethan MyersLouise TaylorRoush VanceEsther, Ted, Katherine, and Ben Williams

For those who have diedBrad GovanDonna MorrowMiguel Ramirez

For all those serving their country away from home, for their safe return, and for their families who wait for them

For all expectant parents

PR AYERS

MUSIC8:45 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist and Baptism/ Cathedral ChoirWilliam Walton, Jubilate DeoPercy Whitlock, Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face

The Godly Play curriculum is at the heart of our Sunday morning classes and the Godly Play philosophy permeates all that we do with children and families at the Cathedral. In short, that means that we take children and their relationship with God seriously. We seek to provide both space to foster encounters with God and the language necessary to make meaning of those experiences.

Godly Play classes for children age 3 through fifth grade meet from 10:10–11 a.m. on Sundays, beginning August 23. To register your child, visit stphilipscathedral.org/godlyplay. If you have any questions, contact Ciara Rowley, 404-365-1038 or crowley@stphilipscathedral.org.

CHILDREN

MEMBERSHIP

NEW MEMBER

Beverley Demetrius, from Marietta

RETURNING MEMBER

Chris Blume, from Charleston, South Carolina

HIGH SCHOOL RAFTING TRIP ON THE OCOEEAll students in grades 9-12 are invited to join our new youth ministry interns, Maggie Paul and Casey Jones, for a weekend of rafting, horseback riding, ropes course activities, and time around the campfire. We will leave from the Cathedral at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 22 and return at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 23. The cost is $135 per person. Please register as soon as possible at stphilipscathedral.org/youth.

YOUTH

SIGN UP FOR FOYERS!Do you enjoy eating good food and meeting new people? Then Foyers is for you! Experience

friends, food, and fellowship in small groups of 8 to 10 each month beginning with Super Foyers on Sunday, September 13 at 6 p.m. in Child Hall. Don’t miss out! Please contact Jackie Hollingsworth at

404-281-8282 or jackiech03@gmail.com with your name, address, phone number, and email.

ADULT EDUCATION

OLD FASHIONED SUNDAY SCHOOL BEGINS AUGUST 30Beginning Sunday, August 30 at 10:10 a.m., Old Fashioned Sunday School will reconvene in Room 133. Canons George Maxwell and Cathy Zappa will lead the class this fall focusing on grace. We have defined grace as the gift of otherness that allows us to receive and participate in the fuller life of God. To begin our exploration of the means of grace, we will enter into a conversation with Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Most other adult education classes will begin Sunday, September 14.

ECW OUTREACHHELP ST. ANNE’S GUILD STOCK BCM’S PANTRY

August is Food Drive Month at the Cathedral as St. Anne’s Guild reaches out to you for donations of food and/or checks of $20 or more in support of Buckhead Christian Ministry (BCM). Make checks payable to Cathedral of St. Philip with “BCM Food Drive” on memo line. The BCM Food Pantry provides 2,000 bags of groceries to more than 1,600 people each month, and is stocked entirely with donations from the community. According to the US Department of Agriculture, one out of five children live in households without access to adequate food. To help, please stop by our table in the Atrium Sundays in August from 9:45–11:15 a.m.

Get your week off to a peaceful start with a labyrinth walk and Taizé on Monday, August 17. The labyrinth will be available from 7–8 p.m. in Child Hall, then the Taizé prayer service starts at 8 p.m. in Mikell Chapel. Originating in Taizé, France, this simple service of scripture, music and candlelight will bring a beautiful and prayerful close to your Monday. The labyrinth and Taizé take place the third Monday of each month at the Cathedral. Come to one, or both – and bring a friend!

SPIRITUALITYBACK TO SCHOOL HAPPY HOURIt's that time of the year again! Help the Cathedral 20s30s kick off the program year with a back to school Happy Hour, Friday, August 28 at 6 p.m. at Fadó Irish Pub, 273 Buckhead Ave. Admission is $15 and includes appetizers. RSVP at stphilipscathedral.org/20s30s.

August is Food Drive Month at the Cathedral, so help St. Anne's Guild stock the pantry at BCM by bringing two canned goods with you!

The Cathedral 20s30s group welcomes twenty- and thirty-somethings who are single, couples, married, and with or without children.

20S30S

MINISTERS AND VISITORSWould you like to meet other Cathedral parishioners? Do you feel called to give back to your faith community? Do you love Holy Eucharist and want to share it with others? Please consider serving as a Eucharistic Minister or Eucharistic Visitor. Contact Jeannie Mahood, jmahood@stphilipscathedral.org, or visit stphilipscathedral.org/worshipsupport for more information.

YOUTH ACOLYTESIf you are in sixth grade or above, please consider joining the ranks of our youth acolyte corps! It’s a fun way to learn all kinds of skills, while also contributing to the community. Training (and dinner!) for new acolytes will be Wednesday, September 2 at 7 p.m. in Child Hall. Contact Jeannie Mahood, jmahood@stphilipscathedral.org, to sign up.

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Homecoming Ministry FairCOME AND SEE THE VARIED AND WONDERFUL WAYS TO GET

INVOLVED WITH THE COMMUNITY LIFE OF THE CATHEDRAL

Homecoming Sunday, August 16

10:10 a.m. | Child Hall

Members from all guilds, groups, and classes will be present to discuss their ministry.

Come meet new friends and reconnect with old ones!

PHOTO EXHIBITION ON DISPLAY IN THE ATRIUM THIS MONTHThis year, Episcopal Relief and Development celebrates 75 years of healing a hurting world. As part of that celebration, a photo exhibition has been traveling across the United States, on display for many to see the work of God’s people in the world. The exhibition will be displayed in the Cathedral’s Atrium from August 14–31.

Visit the exhibition while you are at church on Sunday or stop by during the week to spend time exploring the photos and listening to the personal insights on each image through the AllHands75 app, available for iOS and Android.

EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT

MISSION FAIRSunday, August 23 | 10:10 a.m. | in the Atrium

Find out how you can serve Atlanta and the world by talking with representatives of many of the Cathedral’s outreach ministries and agencies with whom we partner. Contact Canon Cathy Zappa, czappa@stphilipscathedral.org or 404-365-1043, for more information.